Theatre Resume:

1971: Skip makes stage debut as "the Jack-in-the-box" in his first school play "The Night Before Christmas" directed by his 5th grade teacher Pat Gould. They will meet again some 20 years later at The Wilton Playshop.

1972: Skip is cast as "Pish Tush" in The Mikado mainly because he has a real silk Kimono his grandfather got during WWII. It is after this show that he takes an 18 year hiatus from theatre.

May 1990: Skip is cast as "The Intruder/man" in "See How They Run" at The Newtown Players Little Theatre. It is during this production, his first as an "adult" that he decides that what he really wants to do is direct.

January 1991: Skip portrays "Dr. Wyatt" in Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Proscecution" at The Wilton Playshop. He meets future wife Laura who is President of the theatre and also a "Witness" on stage.

September 1991: Skip is cast as the Cockney soldier Tommy in John Patrick's "The Hasty Heart" in Newtown Directed by Nick Steele (his needlepoint from the show hangs in the livingroom along with a bit of the scenery).

January 1992: Skip is surrogate producer for "Children of a Lesser God" when his soon to be wife (the producer) is called out of town on business. She produces through him by phone at The Playshop.

May 1992: Skip produces "Starting Here, Starting Now" at The Playshop.

November 1992: Skip produces "Little Me" (for the late Guy Allred) which is anything but little. The show has a cast of 17, a crew of 15 and 22 set changes in 2 acts. This prompts Guy to dub the show "The Mother of All Musicals".

April 1993: Skip designs the set for friend and mentor Gary Singer's production of "The Perfect Party" at The Playshop.

May 1993: Skip plays Dr. Dre in The Wilton Singers Feast.

April 1994: Set Design for "The Sweet By n By" at The Playshop (below).

Set Design: The Sweet Bye 'n' Bye An interior of a house in West Virginia blonging to a Coal Miner's widow. She has turned it into a sort of general store. Skip did the set decoration himslef since he'd been in houses like this in West Virginia. A good natured competition broke out between Skip and props director Nancy Berg (now Sedlak). Since it was established that "Props" were anything the actors picked up and or touched, Skip asked that when the actors entered the store and looked at the goods on the shelves that they pick them all up to look at. This made them props and removed them from his set budget. Until Nancy "asked" them not to do that anymore.

May 1994: Assistant Director, "Deathtrap" at The Playshop.

November 1994: Co-Set Design: "Little Shop of Horrors" at The Playshop.

January 1995: Director/Set Design, "Arsenic and Old Lace" at The Playshop"

Set Design/Director: Arsenic and Old Lace Arsenic ran in January 1995 and had a two story interior with exits on the second floor. Tom Bennett of Bennett construction, brought in a crew and built the structure and did the trim work. Set decoration was by Amy Parisi, Peg Ploss and myself. Lighting was by the late Guy Allred.

July 1995: Director, "Guys and Dolls" Wilton Student Summer Playshop.

July 1997: Director, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", WSSP.

November 2001: Director/Set Designer, "1776" at The Playshop.

Set Design/Director: 1776 The show, which ran in November 2001, had a stylized 13 colony American flag which started on the back wall and flowed out over the stage. Lighting was done by Mike Presti.

May 2002: Skip, along with several 1776 alumni, are cast in "The Founders" an original play written by Stuart Smith about the Founding of Wilton in 1802.

June 2002: Elected President of The Wilton Playshop.

May 2003: Writes and Directs The Wilton Singers Feast: The Fiascos: My Big Fat Italian Betrothal (aka My Big Fat Italian Feast).

November 2003: Skip is tapped (ok, he volunteered) to Design "Camelot" for Producer Susie Gross and Director David Halliwell.

Set Design: Camelot The Wilton Playshop Stage and Backstage areas are not , shall we say "expansive". The set for Camelot was designed to be changed onstage in full view. The towers were on casters and moved all over the stage, the stair units were adaptable as were the smaller boxes. My sister Wendy, an traditional artist herself, did the stonework. Construction was done with the help of brother-in-law Rob Hower. Lighting by Guy Allred.

May 2004: Skip writes and Directs The Wilton Singers Feast: W.A.S.P on this Island.

January 2005: Co-Produces "See How They Run" with wife Laura at The Wilton Playshop.

February 2005: Directs Larry Shue's "Wenceslas Square" at Wilton High School as the 2005 Underclassman Theatre Project production.

April 2005: Directs, "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue at The Westport Community Theatre.

November 2005: Directs the first of the Playreadings at Wilton Playshop. The Play? Camping with Henry and Tom by Mark St. Germain. The cast? Incredible.

January 2006: Appears onstage in the reading of Larry Gelbart's "Mastergate along side one of his favorite actors, John Pyron.

April 2006: Directs co-worker Tina Jones in Crossing Delancy as part of The Playshop's staged reading series.

September 2006: Directs "Picasso at the Lapine Agile" as a reading at The Playshop.

March 2007: Directs Larry Shue's "The Nerd" at The Wilton Playshop. The show is a hit and marks the stage debut of friend and colleague Laura Connell as Tansy.

November 2007: Skip makes his debut as fall director with Wilton Children's Theater where he directs 55 4th through 8th graders in " Disney's High School Musical".

March 2008: Skip returns to New Canaan for the first show directed in his hometown. He directs Gearge Bernard Shaw's comedy "Candida" (say it like the country Oh, Candida...) at The Town Player of New Canaan who in the past, coincidently, did many shows on the stage at South School......